A legal drama thriller from legendary producer Shonda Rhimes is now available to binge in full for free.
First hitting screens in 2014, How to Get Away with Murder was produced by Rhimes, best known for working on other shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, Bridgerton and The Residence.
The show – which ran for six seasons before ending in 2020 – followed Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), a defence attorney and law professor at a prestigious university in Philadelphia who becomes entangled in a murder plot with five of her students.
The cast also included Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee, Aja Naomi King, Matt McGorry, and Karla Souza as Annalise’s students, while Charlie Weber and Liza Weil played her employees.
Last year fans of the series were left devastated when it was removed from Netflix, with one declaring it was being ‘snatched away’ from them.
But now, nearly eight months later, it’s available again for UK viewers. Even better – it’s also streaming for free on Channel 4.
How to Get Away with Murder boasts an impressive 88% rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes.
When reviewing the first season, the Associated Press wrote: ‘Murder promises to be twisty, wicked, dark and fun. And it stars Viola Davis, who brings life to a character of endless calculations and mystery.’
‘The most addictive new thriller on TV,’ Entertainment Weekly declared.
‘Smart, slick and sexy, How to Get Away with Murder might be your new obsession,’ the Boston Herald added.
It also picked up many fans as soon as it started, with some calling it ‘riveting’, ‘addictive’ and ‘captivating’.
Many also praised Viola’s ‘magnetic presence’.
‘Viola Davis is a powerful screen presence — almost too strong for TV. But she commands the small screen like few actors can,’ the Baltimore Sun explained.
The actress, who went on to also find success starring in The Help and Fences and Suicide Squad, received widespread critical acclaim for her performance in the series.
She became the first Black woman to win a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series, won two Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series, and was nominated for Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards.
She previously spoke to Shondaland about how starring in How to Get Away with Murder marked a turning point in her career.
‘I see Annalise as that point in my career where something switched. And what it did was wake me up to the value of using myself. And what I mean by that is that it changed the way people saw a Black woman,’ she said.
‘Every role that I got before this time, not that I wasn’t extremely happy with those roles, and that’s including the roles I had onstage, but they very much were roles that you could see me in.
‘How to Get Away with Murder was thinking outside of the box. This was my way of subverting that narrative or that reality that we have of what a leading lady should look like, their sexuality should look like, womanhood should look like. It was my opportunity to just turn that on its head, and I had to because I was in the role. So, I could either play it like people expected me to play it, or I could really use myself and use what I know about life, and what I know womanhood to be, and sexuality to be, and Blackness to be — it was my way to just sort of inject my voice and my artistry.’
How to Get Away with Murder is streaming on Channel 4.
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